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...heart pumps blood into the arteries normally 72 times a minute. The blood pulsates through the arteries to tiny arterioles, whence it seeps into capillaries. From the capillaries the blood seeps into minute venules, then flows through the veins back to the heart. On the way the blood delivers oxygen to the body cells and picks up carbon dioxide and other waste products. The polluted venous blood which the heart receives it drives into the lungs. The lungs remove carbon dioxide from the blood, add fresh oxygen. Then the blood goes back to the heart for further circulation. Valves...
...whelk, a kind of sea snail, during his zoological lecture. He could not find his whelk. He searched his coat and waistcoat pockets, crawled under his lecture table, peered around the platform. He finally found the whelk in his hip pocket. Mountaineering Etiquet, Climbing Mt. Everest where atmospheric oxygen is so scant that mountaineers faint, is largely a matter of respiratory engineering, of providing light-weight tanks of oxygen for the climbers. Captain N. E. Odell, survivor of a tragic, ineffectual attempt up Everest in 1924 (TIME, July 14, 1924), last week objected "that if a mountain is worth climbing...
...signal victory, not through some unsavory sensation, but through an exploit that would redound to his honor and that of the Lantern. [He said:] . . . 'Peters, I have nothing to live for. We are both wrong. Keeping up newspaper circulation with stunts is like reviving a dying man with oxygen tanks. I couldn't keep it up and I wouldn't. My flight will be a relief. If I make it, my paper will have something to talk about. If I don't . . . what the hell's the difference?' " Soon afterward Editor Peters' endurance...
Invention had promised succor for just such a disaster. In the U. S. Lieut. Charles Bowers Momsen and in England R. H. Davis have each invented a "lung" for submarine escape. The essential parts of both devices are a small tank of compressed oxygen, an inflated bag and a mouthpiece. Connecting mouthpiece and tank is a stout tube. Thus a man escaping from a sunken submarine can breathe the minutes required for him to bob to the surface and rescue. That is, if he can get out of his deep, steel prison. Since the Momsen "lung" was invented there...
...aloft longer than intended, but that was only because the gas valve had failed to work, and they were forced to wait until the cool of evening contracted the hydrogen in the balloon's bag which was only one-seventh full upon starting. Yes, it was fortunate that their oxygen held out so long. No, they suffered no hardship except heat and thirst. Half the shell of the gondola had been painted black to absorb the rays of the sun in the frigid stratosphere. Result: When far aloft, the air was 75° below zero Fahrenheit outside, it was 106° above...